First, I want to tell you that I am so glad my youngest son gave me Sharpe’s Gold to read when I visited him in Beaufort, SC. I have now read half of the series and am passing them on to my other 4 sons. My youngest is sending me all the Starbuck Chronicles also. I can’t resist asking why you picked the Starbuck name as my great grandmother was a Starbuck from Nantucket and I am a southerner from North Carolina! Ada Jo Burke